Author's Note:
What is it gonna be? Anyway, on with this much shorter chapter...

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Chapter 6
Revelations...

Everyone was fast asleep. Everyone except for Kagome, Sango and Kaede who had pretended that sleep crept up to their faces, only to let the others droop without raising any suspicions.

"Now, Kagome, tell me what thy problem is."

"Well, as I've already told Sango-chan..." Kagome stummered a little "... I am pregnant with Inuyasha's childe."

Kaede seemed to drift off at that answer, nodding her head so slightly that she might have missed it. "And thou wanteth to talk with the two of us about the details of such a gestation, correct?" It was Kagome's turn to nod her agreement. "In this case, we should not stay outside. Such a matter should not be heard from the rest, since this is what you want, and even a hanyou's ears can strain themselves to listen more than mouths to keep it down." The two young women followed Kaede closely behind into her hut.

"One thing, Kaede, the others can wait: tell me I am not having more than one baby, please?"

"Heavens, no!" A loud sigh escaped Kagome's lips.

"Now, dear, I am afraid this is all too much for thou to handle at one night, but we cannot do otherwise. How old has the baby grown inside you, childe?"

"It's about one month and a half, as I've already told Sango."

"Alright. Now, you know that your childe is going to have half your blood and half Inuyasha's. That means that it is going to be yo-bun- no-ichi yasha (AN: "quarter-demon", thank you Kota Magic). Do you believe your family could keep any neighbours away from the childe until Shippou and I enchant a rosary for it?"

"That's OK, no neighbours would come to the..." At that point Kagome was smacking, kicking, even knocking herself out mentally for not thinking that she could not give birth to the childe in a clinic or hospital. Can you imagine the doctor and most the nurses fainting at the sight of the dog-ears-fangs-and-claws-equipped childe? Kagome almost fainted herself.

"What am I going to do? My family could off course do nothing to keep strangers out of the shrine for so long, and there is no way I can go to a doctor!"

"She means a healer, Kaede-sama." was Sango's reply to Kaede's mountaineer eyebrow.

"Ohh. Well, childe, thou could come here, err, I mean now, and stay for the birth."

"Thank you so much, Kaede-sama..." Kagome had a dreamy expression plastered over her face, a result of her thinking of the three of them: Inuyasha, her... and their child. Their cub, actually...

An hour and an exhausted Kagome later: "If you excuse me, I could use some rest, ne? Goodnight."

"Sleep well, Kagome-chan!"

Kagome walked over to her sleeping bag along the "guest-room" they were occupying, her eyes tracing the path that led to Inuyasha's content form sleeping just beside it. As she walked near him, she came up with a plan...

"Inuyaaashaa..." said Kagome in a melodic way, hunched over him. The inu-hanyou squirmed a little, then turned his head to see her. "Kagome..."

Kagome grinned at his sleepy look and leaned to plant a soft kiss square on his lips. Inuyasha found this very pleasant however unexpected and chose to go further with it. As he hugged her, he brought his hands under her shirt, running them up and down along her spine. Kagome shuddered, taking a deep breath from her nostrils, very heated now. She placed her hands on his cheast, kissing him passionately all the while, managing to make two almost identical moans to be emmited from the two of them. Sweet bliss... Inuyasha parted his lips slightly and nipped as lightly as possible at her lower lip, begging her to part her own. As Kagome opened her mouth in responce, her tongue darted out of it, reaching out for his own. Inuyasha felt the sweet, eruptive sensation of her tongue sliding on top his own, twirling around and meshing with it in a dance of passion and love he could not resist.

At that moment Kagome chose to raise her left hand to reach his right ear with it and start scratching it. Inuyasha left out a rather loud gasp, effectively breaking the kiss, then growled contentedly. "You ruined a perfect moment, you know that?"

"I guess youlike that very much and I happen to find your... purring... very cute." Kagome replied with a ^v^ face.

"I. Do. Not. Purr." Inuyasha said firmly yet unconvincingly.

"I just wanted to ask you what you'd like for Christmas." The birth would be around that time of the year since she conceived around the end of March.

"Ohh, I don't know what do you thing?" he said playfully, not knowing were would this lead to...

"Hmm; hey, I know!" Kagome leaned closer and leaving but an inch between their noses she said: "Want a puppy?"

This is not the end of the story; a chapter or two more to go...

ROFLMAO!!! OK, folks, I have to admit it, the reason I begun writing this story was the idea of this scene: Kagome asking Inuyasha whether he would like a puppy for a Christmas present, aka their child... Hope you are not dissappointed...

In the next chapter, what is Kouga going to do (he does find out, unlike Miroku)? Is Shippou going to take it nicely? ^_^